BSOL includes all British standards and international and European standards that have been adopted as British standards. It also includes ASTM, ISO and IEC standards that haven't been adopted as British standards. BSOL also holds BSI Publicly Available Specifications, as well as BSI books.
**New security feature for PDF downloads from 1 September 2021. See below for details.**
Downloading PDFs:
PDF downloads from BSOL incorporate a digital security feature. You are required to have FileOpen plug-in installed on your device to download and print all BSI documents. Adobe Acrobat or Reader is also required to view the documents on Windows and MacOS. Note that PDFs will not open in-browser - you must download and save the PDF to open it.
On University PCs, sign into Acrobat first, close it, then launch the FileOpen package from AppsAnywhere & follow the instructions.
If you encounter an error, check that your browser is set to download PDFs and open with Adobe, rather than open automatically in-browser.
an online tool to quickly access current regulations, construction standards, technical advice and industry news on building, engineering, design and construction processes in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. **First-time users need to register using a lancaster.ac.uk email address in order to gain access **
First-time users will need to register using a lancaster.ac.uk email address in order to gain access.
IEEE Xplore Digital Library offers discovery and access to scientific and technical content published by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and its publishing partners.
Lancaster University subscribes to the following collections:
*IEEE/IET Electronic Library (IEL) - full text IEEE content published since 1988 with select content published since 1872 from IEEE journals, transactions, and magazines, including early access documents, IEEE conferences, IET journals, IET conferences, IEEE published standards, and IEEE Standards Dictionary Online.
*IEEE Standards Online - IEEE active, revised, archived, draft and redline versions
*Wake-up Radio
*Smart Grid Research
*MIT Press eBooks Library Computing and Engineering Collection - full text access to all MIT Press ebook titles copyrighted in the year(s) 2015-2018
*IEEE-Wiley eBooks Library - full text access to all IEEE-Wiley ebook titles copyrighted in the year(s) 1872 to 2018
*Bell Labs Technical Journal - abstract records and full text articles published from 1922
*IBM Journal of Research and Development - abstract records and select full text published since 1957
*VDE VERLAG Conferences - abstract records and select full text published since 2005
*Now Publishers Foundations and Trends Computer Science eBooks Collection 2018
*Morgan & Claypool Synthesis Computer & Information Science eBooks Collections 5-8
*Morgan & Claypool Synthesis Digital Library eBooks Collections 8
Abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogues, PhD dissertations and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art. Entries date back to the late 1960s with thousands more added each year.
Archive of leading consumer and trade titles in the fields of art, photography, architecture, design, from late-nineteenth and twentieth century. Include The Architects' Journal, The Architectural Review, Building Design, Eye: The International Review of Graphic Design, Frame, I.D and more.
This collection includes the specialist indexes ARTbibliographies Modern (covering modern and contemporary art), Design and Applied Arts Index (for all aspects of design and crafts) and the International Bibliography of Art (covering scholarship on Western art history), together with a complementary collection of current full-text journals.
Full-text journal articles in the visual and applied arts.
Subject coverage includes: literature, art, philosophy, linguistics, architecture, history, social sciences, humanities, music, design, photography, etc.
This database is a comprehensive listing of journal articles on architecture since 1934, covering the history and practice of architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, historic preservation and interior design and decoration.
Index of articles, news items, and reviews published in design and applied arts periodicals from 1973 onwards. It covers both new designers and the development of design and the applied arts since the mid-19th century.
The DETAIL inspiration online databank gives users access to more than 5,500 DETAIL project documentations from more than 55 years of DETAIL. By using professional search functions and filter options to find key terms such as building type, material, construction year or the topic of an issue, DETAIL inspiration supports architects both in their quest for solutions and in their daily work. With every new issue of DETAIL, the databank expands by the current projects in question. Furthermore, the projects can be organized and saved as needed in personal watchlists.
Key resource for scholarly literature on Western art. Subject coverage includes: European art since late antiquity; American art since the colonial period; global art since 1945; fine art in the media; decorative arts and antiques; museum studies and conservation; archaeology and material culture; folk art; architectural history.
Aerial Digimap provides access to some of the highest quality aerial photography available for Great Britain, created and licensed by Getmapping plc. Access is convenient and on-demand to a range of interactive tools, allowing interrogation and analysis of the data online and offline. Data is available to view, query and print in Aerial Roam and available to search and retrieve in Aerial Download. Aerial Roam allows you to view detailed aerial imagery at various fixed scales. You can also: add annotations (text, point, lines and areas); identify image capture date by clicking on the map; generate PDF, PNG or JPG files for printing; save maps to go back to or print later.
Aerial photography has a multitude of uses including backdrop mapping and context for a wide range of studies. Ideal for looking at the reality of a location in great detail, the aerial photography available is 25 cm vertical ortho-photography and is available for the whole of Great Britain. The dates of each location will vary, according to what was flown by Getmapping in any given year. By default, the latest version for any location is shown in Roam. Earlier versions are available for download.Aerial Digimap has found uses in coastal zone studies, archaeology, urban studies and town planning, historical studies looking at change over time and habitat change among many other uses.
Provides access to modern Ordnance Survey digital mapping and also the Ancient Roam historic map collection. To access Digimap you must first register with EDINA.
Environment Digimap is part of the Digimap Collection of on-line mapping and data delivery facilities. Users can view maps through their web browser, save maps for printing and download environmental map data for use in geographical information systems.
Digimap’s Geomni Collection provides access to data from our commercial data supplier GEOMNI.co.uk.
Geomni Digimap comprises two applications, one for creating and viewing maps online, the other for downloading data which enables further analysis and investigation in other packages.
An easy to use interface to allow you to browse, view and print historic maps of Great Britain
The service includes the following maps:
all available County Series maps at 1:2,500 and 1:10560 scales published between 1843 and 1939
all available National Grid maps at 1:1,250, 1:2,500 and 1:10560/10,000 scales published from 1945 to before the introduction of the OS digital Land-Line product.
all available Town Plan maps at 1:500, 1:528 and 1:1056 scales published between the 1840s and the 1930s.
Explore a range of demographic data with the newest Digimap collection. Society Digimap provides a wealth of census and socio-economic data for Great Britain. The processing required to visualise Census and other demographic datasets can be a barrier to use for many interested in the value of the datasets. By providing these datasets as layers to visualise along with high quality Ordnance Survey data, users can access the rich information to gain valuable insights for their areas of interest without the need to learn how to use a GIS.
Reliable source of high quality content in the arts, humanities and social sciences from many of the world's leading universities and scholarly societies.
An abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature in the fields of science, mathematics, engineering, technology, health and medicine, social sciences and arts & humanities.
Indexes thousands of high quality, peer-reviewed journals, providing complete bibliographic data, full-length abstracts and links to cited references and citing articles.
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